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Syllabus:

Culture and Media in Sweden, 7.5 Credits

Swedish name: Culture and Media in Sweden

This syllabus is valid: 2012-08-27 valid to 2015-08-30 (newer version of the syllabus exists)

Course code: 1KA021

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: First cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Cultural Analysis: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Drama-Theatre-Film: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Ethnology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Art History: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Comparative Literature: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Media and Communication Studies: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Museology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements

Grading scale: Three-grade scale

Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies

Contents

The course gives an overview of Swedish culture and media with a focus on modernity and issues concerning the Swedish welfare system. How have art, literature, drama, film, music, media and communication developed in this context? What can be learned about Sweden through a look at culture and media in Sweden?

Expected learning outcomes

After completing the course the students should have basic knowledge of:

  • issues concerning culture and media in Sweden in a modern context
  • how to analyse examples of cultural or medial expressions (art work, film, novel, tv-program, newspaper etc.) in a Swedish context
  • ideas concerning the Swedish welfare system in relation to culture and media

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Form of instruction

The teaching consists of lectures, seminars and local excursions. Seminars and local excursions are compulsory. All activities will be in the evenings and spread all along the course.

Examination modes

The course is examined through participation on seminars and excursions, and one individually written examination. The written exam is held at the end of the course and will cover both descriptive and analytic elements. Students who fail the scheduled final examination have the right to re-sit the examination soon afterwards, but the first exam might also be corrected with the possibility to the highest grade (VG) restricted. Examination on the same syllabus as the ordinary examination is guaranteed during two years after the first registration to the course.

The general system os U for fail, G for pass and VG for pass with distinction. Upon request students may receive the grades A-FX.

Students who have passed an examination cannot redo the examination to receive a higher grade. It is not possible to appeal against a received grade, i. e., to get it examined by a higher authority, but a student can always criticize the grading or ask another examiner to reconsider the examination

Other regulations

Credit transfer is always examined individually

Literature

  • Valid from: 2013 week 38

    Art goes underground : art in the Stockholm metro
    Thompson Laurie, Söderström Göran
    [Ny, rev. utg.] : Stockholm : Stockholmia : 2004 : 328 s. :
    ISBN: 91-7031-108-0 (inb.)
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    A history of the press in Sweden
    Gustafsson Karl Erik, Rydén Per
    Göteborg : NORDICOM : 2010 : 369 s. :
    ISBN: 978-91-86523-08-4
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Johansson Ola
    Beyond ABBA : The Globalization of Swedish Popular Music
    Included in:
    The American Geographical Society's focus on geography
    American Geographical Society : 53 : pages 134-141 :
    Link
    Mandatory

    Soila Tytti
    Sweden
    Included in:
    Nordic national cinemas
    London : Routledge : 1998 : 262 s. : pages 142-232 :
    Mandatory

    Forshaw Barry.
    Death in a cold climate : a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction
    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2012. : ix, 207 p. :
    ISBN: 978-0-230-30369-0 (hbk)
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Carlsson Ulla
    Public service media from a Nordic horizon : politics, markets, programming and users : [a research anthology from NORDICOM]
    Göteborg : NORDICOM : 2013 : 177 s. :
    ISBN: 978-91-86523-60-2 (korr.)
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    One Swedish Crime Fiction novel, choice must be approved by teacher.

    A history of Scandinavian literatures. : Vol. 3 A history of Swedish literature
    Rossel Sven Hakon, Warme Lars G.
    Lincoln, Neb. : Univ. of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American-Scandinavian Foundation : Cop. 1996 : xvi, 584 s. :
    ISBN: 0-8032-4750-8
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Forsås-Scott Helena
    Swedish women's writing 1850-1995
    London : Athlone : 1997 : 333 s., [8] pl.-s. :
    ISBN: 0-485-92003-4 (hft)
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Like virginity, once lost : five views on Nordic art now : Sara Arrhenius, Lars Bang Larsen, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Timo Valjakka
    Birnbaum Daniel, Arrhenius Sara, Nilsson John Peter
    Lund : Propexus : cop. 1999 : [4] s., s. 9-129 :
    ISBN: 91-87952-17-3 ; 150:00
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Music, media, multiculture : changing musicscapes
    Lundberg Dan, Malm Krister, Ronström Owe
    Stockholm : Svenskt visarkiv : 2003 : 455 s. :
    http://www.visarkiv.se/mmm
    ISBN: 91-85374-37-7
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Scandinavian crime fiction
    Nestingen Andrew, Arvas Paula
    Cardiff : University of Wales Press : 2011 : 194 s. :
    ISBN: 978-0-7083-2330-4
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Wallenberg Louise
    Straight Heroes with Queer Inclinations : Male film Stars in the Swedish 1930s
    Included in:
    Hetero
    Albany, NY : SUNY Press : 2009 : 270 s. : pages 71–88 :

  • Valid from: 2012 week 37

    A history of Scandinavian literatures. : Vol. 3 A history of Swedish literature
    Rossel Sven Hakon, Warme Lars G.
    Lincoln, Neb. : Univ. of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American-Scandinavian Foundation : Cop. 1996 : xvi, 584 s. :
    ISBN: 0-8032-4750-8
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Let the right one in
    Ajvide Lindqvist John, Segerberg Ebba
    Paperback ed. : London : Quercus : 2009 : 519 p. :
    ISBN: 978-1-84724-848-0 (pbk.)
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Art goes underground : art in the Stockholm metro
    Thompson Laurie, Söderström Göran
    [Ny, rev. utg.] : Stockholm : Stockholmia : 2004 : 328 s. :
    ISBN: 91-7031-108-0 (inb.)
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    A history of the press in Sweden
    Gustafsson Karl Erik, Rydén Per
    Göteborg : NORDICOM : 2010 : 369 s. :
    ISBN: 978-91-86523-08-4
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Johansson Ola
    Beyond ABBA : The Globalization of Swedish Popular Music
    Included in:
    The American Geographical Society's focus on geography
    American Geographical Society : 53 : pages 134-141 :
    Link
    Mandatory

    Soila Tytti
    Sweden
    Included in:
    Nordic national cinemas
    London : Routledge : 1998 : 262 s. : pages 142-232 :
    Mandatory

    Swedish film : an introduction and reader
    Larsson Mariah, Marklund Anders
    Lund : Nordic Academic Press : 2010 : 367 s. :
    ISBN: 978-91-85509-36-2 (inb.)
    Mandatory
    Search the University Library catalogue

    A history of Swedish experimental film culture : from early animation to video art
    Andersson Lars Gustaf, Sundholm John, Widding Astrid Söderbergh
    Stockholm : National Library of Sweden : 2010 : 248 s. :
    ISBN: 978-0-86196-699-8
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Forshaw Barry.
    Death in a cold climate : a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction
    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2012. : ix, 207 p. :
    ISBN: 978-0-230-30369-0 (hbk)
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Forsås-Scott Helena
    Swedish women's writing 1850-1995
    London : Athlone : 1997 : 333 s., [8] pl.-s. :
    ISBN: 0-485-92003-4 (hft)
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Like virginity, once lost : five views on Nordic art now : Sara Arrhenius, Lars Bang Larsen, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Timo Valjakka
    Birnbaum Daniel, Arrhenius Sara, Nilsson John Peter
    Lund : Propexus : cop. 1999 : [4] s., s. 9-129 :
    ISBN: 91-87952-17-3 ; 150:00
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Music, media, multiculture : changing musicscapes
    Lundberg Dan, Malm Krister, Ronström Owe
    Stockholm : Svenskt visarkiv : 2003 : 455 s. :
    http://www.visarkiv.se/mmm
    ISBN: 91-85374-37-7
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Scandinavian crime fiction
    Nestingen Andrew, Arvas Paula
    Cardiff : University of Wales Press : 2011 : 194 s. :
    ISBN: 978-0-7083-2330-4
    Search the University Library catalogue

    Wallenberg Louise
    Straight Heroes with Queer Inclinations : Male film Stars in the Swedish 1930s
    Included in:
    Hetero
    Albany, NY : SUNY Press : 2009 : 270 s. : pages 71–88 :